The Plague Years

1. Introduction 2. Masked Masterpieces: In R?lational Folds 3. 'As others feel pain in their lungs': Albert Camus's The Plague 4. Self/isolation 5. Plague and Cultural Panic: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' 6. Two Paintings 7. Towards a Poetics of Disaster: Chinese Poetry in Combating COVID-19 8. Ten Chinese COVID-19 Poets 9. Ancient Chinese Poetry and Chinese Calligraphy in Combatting COVID-19 10. Will the COVID-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-nationalism? 11. The Room 12. Fever Dreams: Surveying the Representation of Plagues and Pandemics in South African Speculative Fiction 13. An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer's Fever 14. Plagues in Palimpsest: Historical Time and Narrative Time in Diane Awerbuck's Home Remedies, Marcus Low's Asylum and Russel Brownlee's Garden of the Plagues 15. HERO 16. Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster 17. COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps 18. Green Dream 19. Sonification and Music: Science meets Art 20. Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Farming Mother Wrote about HIV 21. Two Poems 22. Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams' 'Structure of Feeling' and Zadie Smith's Intimations 23. Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the 'Insect' in Times of the Plague 24. COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change 25. Tick Tock 26. Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction